Samsung announced today the Samsung Wave, the first mobile phone to be released on the company's new open mobile platform, Samsung bada. The Samsung Wave features a 3.3-inch AMOLED touch screen, a 1GHz processor, built-in WiFi (802.11n), Bluetooth 3.0, a 5 megapixel camera and the new TouchWiz 3.0. The Samsung Wave will be available globally from April 2010. Here is more info on this upcoming Samsung smartphone:

Social Hub ? my communities at my hand Social Hub has been designed from the ground up to seamlessly integrate all major portal?s email, IM and SNS services directly into the Samsung Wave. With its TouchWiz 3.0 UI, it provides users easy-flow integrated experience of messaging, managing contacts and viewing calendar events.

TouchWiz 3.0 UI ? new and improved The Samsung Wave provides superior levels of choice to all users via its fully customizable menus and home-page. For those who demand access to their social networking sites at all times, the device allows users to change the layout of the home-page to allow instant access to Twitter, Facebook and a host of other social networking services. For those who love music, the device home-page can be turned into an intuitive media player; while for those who take and share a lot of photos, the home page can be customized to feature favourite images. Users will also benefit from Quick Panel, a way of prioritizing and aggregating applications into one screen for instant access.

The Samsung Wave benefits from a superb 1GHz processor, and the phone has multi-codec support for DivX Xvid, MP4 and WMV, and support for virtual 5.1 surround sound delivery. Samsung Wave is incorporated Bluetooth 3.0 and WiFi 802.11n standard.